ACCESS Health International works to help provide high quality, affordable care for the elderly and the chronically ill. Our method is to identify, analyze, and document best practices in managing the elderly and chronically ill patients and to consult with public and private providers to help implement new and better cost effective ways to care for this population. We also encourage entrepreneurs to create new businesses to serve the needs of this rapidly expanding population. At present, ACCESS Health works on these issues in high income countries, including Singapore, Sweden, and the United States. ACCESS Health is working to expand this work to low and middle income countries, including India and China.

Hong Kong (China)

ACCESS Health Hong Kong will work in areas relevant to the aging population, including caregiver training and education, quality measurement, monitoring and information systems, and housing and urban planning.

Projects

Joint Learning Network for Evolving Health Systems

ACCESS Health brings together experts and organizations facing similar healthcare challenges to share experiences in a structured process known as joint learning. Through this process, experts and organizations share knowledge of what works and what does not. ACCESS Health intends to establish a Joint Learning Network to address the problems of elder care and primary care within both urban and rural China.

Projects

Joint Learning Network for Evolving Health Systems

ACCESS Health brings together experts and organizations facing similar healthcare challenges to share experiences in a structured process known as joint learning. Through this process, experts and organizations share knowledge of what works and what does not. ACCESS Health intends to establish a Joint Learning Network to address the problems of elder care and primary care within both urban and rural China.

Silverevolution

Singapore

Singapore has one of the fastest aging populations in the world, resulting from a fertility rate that is well below the replacement rate and a life expectancy that is among the highest in the world. Today, one in seven Singaporeans is over sixty five years old, and that ratio is expected to increase to one in three over the next thirty years. ACCESS Health Singapore documents, analyzes, and shares lessons from the comprehensive, long term planning process of the government to reorient its healthcare system to the needs of the elderly and chronically ill.

Featured Projects

Modern Aging

Modern Aging is an initiative of ACCESS Health International that inspires and empowers entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds to create businesses to serve the needs of the elderly. The Modern Aging educational programs provide insights into the medical and social needs of the elderly, offer examples of successful businesses, mentor participants, and provide limited…

Stay Young Navigators

Stay Young Navigators is a community based program that trains active agers to help their peers manage their health by serving as liaisons for health services, community resources, and financial assistance programs.

A City for All Ages: Health as an Organizing Principle for Metropolitan Transformation: The Singapore Example

Modern Aging

Modern Aging is an initiative of ACCESS Health International that inspires and empowers entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds to create businesses to serve the needs of the elderly. The Modern Aging educational programs provide insights into the medical and social needs of the elderly, offer examples of successful businesses, mentor participants, and provide limited…

Pioneering Elder Care

ACCESS Health Singapore and ACCESS Health Sweden collaborated on a study of the Singapore elderly care system, one of six models used to guide the development of the Swedish elderly care provider payment system.

Silverevolution

Stay Young Navigators

Stay Young Navigators is a community based program that trains active agers to help their peers manage their health by serving as liaisons for health services, community resources, and financial assistance programs.

Sweden

ACCESS Health Sweden analyzes how specific programs and policies improve and modernize care for older adults. Because we are locally based, ACCESS Health Sweden is able to participate in the response to the aging population in the country and to identify strengths and weaknesses in the elderly care strategies of the country. We use this knowledge to discuss challenges and opportunities with Swedish national and local leaders and to inspire and guide other countries as they seek to improve care for their own people.

Featured Projects

Elder Care Case Studies

ACCESS Health studies the Swedish elder care system from different angles. Our team interviews regional directors of healthcare, national and local politicians, policy experts, doctors, nurses, assistant nurses, and a range of other healthcare professionals in an effort to identify areas for improvement and strengths of the Swedish elder care system.

Modern Aging

Modern Aging is an initiative of ACCESS Health International that inspires and empowers entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds to create businesses to serve the needs of the elderly. The Modern Aging educational programs provide insights into the medical and social needs of the elderly, offer examples of successful businesses, mentor participants, and provide limited…

Projects

Elder Care Case Studies

ACCESS Health studies the Swedish elder care system from different angles. Our team interviews regional directors of healthcare, national and local politicians, policy experts, doctors, nurses, assistant nurses, and a range of other healthcare professionals in an effort to identify areas for improvement and strengths of the Swedish elder care system.

Experience Design for the Elderly

Experience Design for the Elderly worked with Swedish design students to develop tools and activities to create conversations around empathy, the healthcare system, and different viewpoints. We shared this knowledge with those interested or involved in the care of the elderly.

Modern Aging

Modern Aging is an initiative of ACCESS Health International that inspires and empowers entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds to create businesses to serve the needs of the elderly. The Modern Aging educational programs provide insights into the medical and social needs of the elderly, offer examples of successful businesses, mentor participants, and provide limited…

Pioneering Elder Care

ACCESS Health Singapore and ACCESS Health Sweden collaborated on a study of the Singapore elderly care system, one of six models used to guide the development of the Swedish elderly care provider payment system.

Silverevolution

United States

According to estimates from the US Department of Health and Human Services, people aged sixty five and older will represent nineteen percent of the population by 2030, up from just over twelve percent in 2000. And a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center found that seventy five percent of adults in this age group are living with a chronic condition, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or heart disease. With four in ten Americans currently tasked with the care of their elderly and chronically ill relatives, the US healthcare system urgently needs to adjust to meet the rapidly growing demand for high quality and affordable elder and tong term care. ACCESS Health United States helps practitioners and policymakers locate, learn from, and scale up pockets of excellence in elder and long term care.

From the Blog

ACCESS Health China organized a Modern Aging Open Day inviting mentors from Hong Kong and Mainland China to give guidance on innovative projects that are aimed at improving the quality of life and wellbeing of the elderly. It was the first time inviting mentors to participate virtually from different geographic locations. Two distinguished mentors participated in the day:Ms. Serena Xie, Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer of YD CareMs Di Zheng, Senior Program Officer of Leping’s Social Innovation Research and Development CenterSOW Asia, our...

ACCESS Health China recently co organized the Fourth National Innovation for the Elderly Competition. This was the second time ACCESS Health participated in the competition. This year, ACCESS Health participated in the recruitment process for new projects, designing the training program, offering training, judging the semifinal completion, and conducting research on global trends in aging innovations. Winners from the competition will join the Shanghai Aging Innovation Alliance and will receive exclusive business development support and networking support from the alliance. Members of the...

Straits Times recently published a story about the business selected as finalists in the Modern Aging accelerator program. Read the original post here or the original by journalist Ng Huiwen, below.Senior citizens with visual disabilities could soon get help to "read" while wearing a ring on their finger.Using the FingerReader, they can simply point at words or items and listen to the results through a headset, which is linked to the ring by a cloud...